PIRANGA. — CYANICTERrS. 



527 



Extralimital Range. Surinam {Penard), Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru. 



Habits. Unrecorded in Britisli Guiana. 



Genus CYANICTERUS Bona p. 



Cj/dfiicfervs Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 240, ISoO. Type C. venustus 

 Bonap.^zC. ci/aiiicterus (VieilL). 



Fig. 191. — Ctjanicterus cyanicterus. 



This monotypic genus is readily distinoui.sliod by its bright 

 blue and yellow plumage. The bill is proportionately long, 

 compressed on the apical portion, and hooked at the tip of the 

 upper mandible, but there is no trace ot" a tooth on its cutting- 

 edges. The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth 

 primaries longest and equal, and the first about equal in length to 

 the fifth. The tail is slightly rounded at the ti[) and rather more 

 than half the length of the wing. The tarsus only slightly exceeds 

 the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration: male and female 

 di tie rent. 



C82. Cyanicterus cyanicterus. 

 Plki'li:-blue Tanagek. 



Pyranga cyunictera Vieill. N. Diet. cVHist. Nat. xxviii. p. 200, 1819 



(Cayenne); id. (ial. Ois. pi. S], 1S2''> ; Puch. Arch. Mus. Paris, vii. 



])p. 8oG, 371), i^L 22, 1855 (Cayenne). 

 Orthuyonys cyanicterus Salvin, Ibis, 1S85, p. 211 (Mennne Mts.). 

 L'yanictf'ius vcnuslns Selater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 193, 188G 



(Merunie Mts., Mazaruni Kiver). 

 Cyanicterus cymiicterus Jjrabomne & Cliubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 419, 



no. 431G, 1912. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface pale blue, 

 including the crown of the head, entire back, wings, and tail ; 

 greater upper wing-coverts blackish on the inner webs ; bastard- 



